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PEDESTAL FOR RANGE BOILERS. No. 375,412. Patented Dec. 27, 1887.

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ALLEN P. GREQUE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PEDESTAL FOR RANGE-BOILERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3751412, dated December27,1887.

Application filed J anuarv 3, 1885. Serial No. 151,928. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALLEN P. Cancun, of New York city, county and Stateof New York, have invented an Improvement in Pedestals forRange-Boilers, of which the following de scription, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to, that class of boiler stands or pedestalshaving an upright composed of a series of detachable sections separatedby grooves to enable one or more of the said sections to be broken offor detached from the upright to shorten or reduce the pedestal to theheight required for the boiler in each particular case, the uprightbeing originally made of the greatest length that will ordinarily berequired. In other applications, Serial Nos. 151,926 and 151,927, I haveshown and described a pedestal of that class in which the upright iscomposed of a hollow column of integral sect-ions, fragill y connected,and the base is also hollow, thus requiring a core for casting.

The object of the present invention is to produce a cheaper support thandescribed in the applications referred to; and the present inventionconsists, essentially, in an upright composed of a series of radialflanges or projections provided with shallow grooves, thus ontlining'aseries of sections each of which is adapted to receive, and which isalso preferably so made as to have fastened to it,a bracket orcooperating member having a suitable socket to engage the endmost orterminal section of the upright. If desired, a lengtheningpiece may beadded to the upright, which lengthening-piece will be adapted to receivethe bracket or cooperating member like the detachable sections of themain upright,which may thus be made of average length and may belengthened or shortened by adding or removing sections, as the case mayrequire.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a boiler pedestal or support embodyingthis invention; Fig. 2, a partial vertical section of the upper portionthereof, with a lengthening-piece attached; Fig. 3, a vertical sectionof the socket or foot which engages the terminal section of the upright;and Fig. 4, a horizontal section on line w m, Fig. 1.

The upright consists of a series of radial flanges, a, preferably threeor four in number for convenience in casting, the said flangesinterseeting with a solid central portion, b,which may be of any desiredsize. The said flanges are shown as extending out at the end ofthecolumn at c to afford a suitable base for the upright, which is providedwith grooves 11, making weak points at which the upright may be easilybroken, the said grooves thus separating the said upright into a seriesof detachable sections, one or moreof which may be removed from the endof the upright to reduce the height of the pedestal, as may be required.The edges of the flanges a in each section of the upright are preferablyinclined, as shown, so that the entire series of flanges in a givensection will afford aseat or bearing for a cup-shaped socket, e, whichmay constitute a portion of the bracket f, a part only of which is shownin Fig. 1, upon which the boiler may rest; and in order to fasten thebracket or cooperating member upon the upright the said socket isprovided with locking projections g, (see Figs. 2 and 3,) which, by thepartial rotation of the socket after it has been seated on the endsection of the upright, will engage locking shouldcrs h on the flangesa.

In some cases a very high support will be required; and in order toobviate the necessity of making all the uprights of sufficient length tomeet such extreme cases, and thus necessitate the shortening of theuprightin the greater number of cases, a lengthening-piece may beemployed, as shown in Fig. 2, it having a socket, 6, adapted to seat onthe end section of the mainupright, as already described, the saidsocket being surmounted by an upright composed of flanges a, similar tothose of the main upright, and adapted to receive the socket e of thebracketf, or still another lengtheningpiece, if required.

The lengtheningpiece may itself be separated by grooves into a series ofdetachable sections, so that such lengtheningpiece may be made ofsufficient length for the very highest supports that may be required,and may then be shortened to produce supports for inter mediate heightsbetween that afforded by the said upright with the entirelengthening-piece.

It will be seen that the socket e in either case is seated and fasteneddirectly on the endmost section of that portion of the upright that isused as the upper or terminal end.

I claim 1. In a pedestal or support, an upright having a series oflongitudinal flanges, a, provided with shallow cross or transversegrooves to outline sections and make a fragile connection between saidoutlined sections, combined with a cooperating member, f, provided witha socket to embrace the terminal section of the upright, substantiallyas described.

2. In a pedestal or support, an iiprighthaving aseries of longitudinalradial flanges,a,provided with shallow cross or transverse grooves tooutline sections and make a fragile connection between said outlinedsections, C0111- bined with a cooperating member,f, provided with asocket to fit the terminal section, and

with a locking device to securc'the cooperating Inemberfto the saidterminal section of 20 the upright, substantially as described.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a boiler-pedestal composed,essentially, of a base provided with an upright having severallongitudinal radial flanges, the upper end of 25 the flanges beingtapered to form parts of a seat, and a bracket, f, having a socket, e,to rest or bear upon the seat portions of the flanges, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALLEN P. CREQUE. \Vitnesses:

G. \V. GREGORY, Jos. P. LIVERMORE.

